Sentences with phrase «on dystopian stories»

An artful mix of suspense, fantasy and social critique, Emily Schultz's The Blondes puts a feminist twist on the dystopian stories that have been crowding fiction shelves for the last several years.

I'm not big on dystopian stories either.

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On shelf after shelf in the Indigo bookstore downstairs, they're peddling the same story, that of a dystopian future where teens are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of adults.

The plot, which is a parody of a dystopian science fiction story along the lines of Tron or The Matrix, focuses on an unexceptional mini-figure construction worker, Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt).

With as much as they have riding on their shoulders, the fact that Minecraft: Story Mode hasn't turned into a heavy, Walking Dead-esque slog is a testament that you can still work through some deep subjects without needing to crush your audience beneath the heavy stone weight of dystopian reality.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

For those unfamiliar with the comic, the overall plot of the story essentially centers on the characters in the past being warned about and — trying to avoid — a very unappealing dystopian future.

The story takes place on a dystopian Earth and stars Tom Cruise as a drone repairman who holds the future of mankind in his...

«Dredd,» based on John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's classic «2000 AD» comic «Judge Dredd,» tells the story of hard - nosed future cop Judge Dredd, who has the ability to act as judge, jury and executioner in the dystopian Mega-City One.

Propping up the dystopian hero's story is a clumsily conceived, confusing «faction» system that makes so little sense it can cause spontaneous combustion if meditated on for extended periods of time.

The story centers around a secret, members - only hospital in a dystopian future that caters only to criminals, which sounds like a possibly delightful twist on John Wick's joyfully convoluted assassin hotel idea.

Based on a novel by Ernest Cline and co-adapted by him too, the story unfolds in the inevitably dystopian future of 2045

Based on a novel by Ernest Cline and co-adapted by him too, the story unfolds in the inevitably dystopian future of 2045, where rubbish - strewn trailer parks are now arranged vertically and where our young hero, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan)-- like so many others who live in «the Stacks» — prefers to spend his days immersed in the Oasis rather than confronting the misery of real life.

Ready Player One is based on Ernest Cline's best - selling 2011 novel and tells the story of Wade Owen Watts (Tye Sheridan), a young man living in a dystopian future where the general population spends most of its time in the virtual reality landscape of OASIS rather than the real world.

Their stories reveal a dystopian reality: unauthorized second children ignored by the state, only children supporting aging parents and grandparents on their own, villages teeming with ineligible bachelors.

Meyer cleverly includes enough elements of the original Cinderella story to keep fans of fairy tales happy, but she simultaneously makes the story entirely her own, constructing a futuristic, dystopian world that is complex enough to stand on its own.

So too, do success stories like that of Day, who originally self - published her erotic novel Bared to You, or the author Hugh Howey, who sold hundreds of thousands of copies of his dystopian novel Wool himself on Amazon before landing a publisher.

You'll take on the role of bartender at a dystopian bar where you'll unravel some of the most gripping stories from your clients.

The strongest element in the gameplay by far is how it links the story with the types of enemies, the combat and challenges that you are presented giving you an idea on how raptures idealic utopia became such a horrible dystopian mess.

«Based on short stories by Mohamed Mustagab, an Egyptian author... Shawky adapts Mustagab's prose in a startling and sometimes deeply unsettling way... a dystopian world in which tradition has gone sour.»